In the spirit of summer and traveling, T-Mobile is offering up some tips on how to stay connected with smartphones and tablets while on the go easily and without doing your wallet too much harm. SVP of Marketing Andrew Sherrard points out that 8 out of 10 participants in a Harris Interactive study brought their…
Foursquare connected apps bring useful information to your check-ins
Foursquare is announcing today what it’s calling the “next evolution” of third-party developer integration: connected apps. 25,000 developers were using Foursquare’s API up until now, but it was never able to be tied together with the Foursquare app itself — the features were all by their lonesome in a separate app. Starting today, Foursquare is…
Yelp check-ins integrated with iOS 6 Maps
Apple will push social networking integration forward in iOS 6 not only with Facebook sharing across the board, but also with the ability to check-in to a venue via Yelp within the new Maps app in iOS 6. The ability to check-in is already in the Maps app for developers with access to the iOS…
Waze can now save you money on gas during your travels
Waze is releasing an update today to its iPhone and Android apps that includes a helpful new feature for saving a few bucks on the road: thanks to the crowd-sourced data, you’ll now be able to save cash on fuel. To start saving, you tap the left menu icon and choose Categories. There, not only…
Fuze Join enables multi-party video chat on the iPhone
FuzeBox unveiled today an update to the Fuze Join app already available in the App Store that most notably brings multi-party video conferencing to iPhone owners. Fuze Join is geared toward enterprise users who travel but need to communicate with co-workers. “Between the accumulation of travel expenses and time lost, corporations waste millions of dollars each…
As expected, Apple demos totally revamped Maps app in iOS 6
Apple unveiled a brand new Maps app at WWDC 2012 that ditches Google Maps once and for all. It includes everything users have been asking for and more. The new Maps app features complete turn-by-turn navigation (yes, get out all the laughter, Android users) plus the long-rumored 3D mode Apple is nicknaming “Flyover.” The 3D…
Prototype AT&T app can track your teens on the road
Researchers at AT&T have a prototype app that could theoretically in the future track the driving habits of teenagers, or really anyone, on the road. The app uses data from drivers with a smartphone as well as tracking data already built into cars. It combines these forces to determine a wealth of statistics for a…
Vocre 2.0 for iOS lets you translate video calls on the fly
Vocre will soon be releasing version 2.0 of its app to the iOS App Store and with it comes what I consider a revolutionary new feature: live language translation during video calls. It’s one of those futuristic things you think about as a child and it will soon be accessible to anyone with an iPhone,…
Google optimizes Flight Search for Android, iOS
Google added Flight Search to its list of services optimized for the mobile web. Android and iOS users can access Flight Search – which Google launched last September – as a desktop-exclusive search feature the mobile version may be a much more convenient way to identify flight schedules while traveling. Just like on a computer,…
MapQuest opens its API to Android, iOS developers
MapQuest today announced that it has released the Android Maps API and the beta release of the Apple iOS Maps API. These full suite of features are supposed to be a better alternative to other native mobile mapping APIs, according to Vijay Bangaru, VP-Product at MapQuest. MapQuest has developed both the Android and Apple iOS Map…